Roland Barthes Quotes on Love
Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, semiotician, and essayist. This page collects quotes attributed to Roland Barthes on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other.”
Talking," in A Lover's Discourse (1977) -
Attributed to Roland Barthes:
“What love lays bare in me is energy.”
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Attributed to Roland Barthes:
“I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire.”
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“Talking," in A Lover's Discourse (1977)”
Language is a skin : I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.